Tea-kettle nozzle



(No Model.)

G. COLLINS.

TEA KETTLE NOZZLE.

No. 359,061. Patented Mar. 8, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE COLLINS, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

TEA-KETTLE NOZZLE.

SPECIPICATEUH forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,061, dated March 8, 1887.

Serial No. 217,215. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, GEORGE COLLINS, of Detroit, in the county of Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tea-Kettle Nozzles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention is a new and useful improvementi-n the construction of nozzles or spouts for vessels which are made of sheet metal; and it consists in the peculiar combinations and the novel construction and arrangement of parts, all as more fully here inafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved spout as attached to the section of wall of a sheet-metal vessel. Fig. 2 is a perspec tive of the inner end of the spout with the other parts detached. Fig. 3 is a perspective of the inner side of the annular nut.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, A represents a spout of cast metal provided with a flange, a, the inner face of which is provided with annular corrugations b, and the inner end of the spout is threaded, as shown at a. e

B is an annular nut threaded to fit the end of the spent, and is provided with a flange, d,

the inner face of which is provided with annular corrugations e.

In practice a hole is cut through the sheet metal at the proper point of sufficient size to receive the threaded end of the spout. The not B is then screwed up with sufficient force to compress the sheet metal into the corrugations on the flanges of the nut and spout, thereby making a perfectly tight joint, which may still further be tightened, if necessary, by an additional turn of the nut.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a cast-metal spout having a grooved flange, a, and threaded extension 0 and a nut, B, provided with a correspondingly-grooved flange, d, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a cast-metal fitting having a flange or shoulder grooved on its in ner face with a plate having a grooved face and a sheet-metal vessel to which the fitting is to be attached,whereby the sheet-metal vessel is corrugated at the joint when the joint is set, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE COLLINS.

Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, JOHN SCHUMAN. 

